Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. 

For this first episode, released Thursday 6 November 2025, we walk you through the timelines and key themes for this COP - from forests to finance. We also give you a who's who for this year's World Leaders Summit (6-7 November). 

Your special guest expert for this episode is Cathy Yitong Li, global climate & energy policy lead at BirdLife International. Cathy is also an advisor to the UN on environmental and climate justice. 

Your hosts are: 
- edie content editor Sarah George
- edie editor Matt Mace 
- edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal 
- Springwise content editor Matilda Cox

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Episode 1: Demystifying COP30 & what to expect from the World Leaders Summit

The new episode of the edie Extra podcast is now streaming, with Patagonia’s regional manager for Northern Europe, Alex Beasley, sharing his insights on how businesses can stay resilient amidst growing pushback on ESG.

In this episode, edie’s senior reporter Sidhi Mittal speaks with Beasley at The Conduit in Soho, London, during the pre-launch event of Patagonia’s Progress Report. The conversation explores how businesses can remain true to their values while navigating regulatory uncertainty and political pressure.

Whether you’re a business leader, climate expert, environmental professional, youth activist, or just have a passion for all things green – this podcast is for you!

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#SustyTalk: How Patagonia is staying resilient in the ‘ESG winter’

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil.

This sixth episode, released Thursday 13 November 2025, focuses on tackling climate-related misinformation and disinformation. 

With the rise of AI deepfakes and with public trust in traditional information sources waning, information integrity has been added to the COP agenda for the first time. We explore what that means in practice with Maria Correa, advisor and spokesperson for Creatives for Climate.

Creatives for Climate says it takes a systemic approach to reducing the influence of big polluters on creative industries including TV, PR, print media and advertising. It works with more than 7,000 creatives worldwide on this imporant issue.

We also bring you the biggest headlines from the UN climate summit in brief, covering everything from the attendance of Indigenous groups to scuffles over agreements on the energy transition. 

Your hosts are:
- edie content editor Sarah George
- edie editor Matt Mace
- edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal

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Episode 6: Forest funding, fighting greenwashing and fossil fuel adverts

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil.

This seventh episode, released Friday 14 November 2025, focuses on closing the climate finance gap. 

Countries have already committed to providing $300bn of public climate finance a year, but have never achieved this pledge. Now, they want to lean on philanthropists and the private sector to reach $1.3trn per year by 2035. 

How can this vision be turned into reality? We ask our expert guest speaker, the Green Finance Institute's head of missions James Hooton.

We also bring you the biggest headlines from the UN climate summit in brief, covering new figures on fossil fuel lobbyists attending and shocking news about how past climate finance allocations have been directed.

Your hosts are:
- edie content editor Sarah George
- edie editor Matt Mace
- edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal

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Episode 7: Fossil fuel roadmaps, thousands of lobbyists and scaling green finance

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil.

This eighth episode, released Saturday 15 November 2025, focuses on the energy transition. 

How is the world progressing towards the goal set at COP28, two years ago, to treble renewables? Are we thinking too much about wind turbines, solar panels and dams, and not enough about grids and supply chains?

We ask our special expert guest speaker, Alfredo Parres, Hitachi Energy’s head of renewables.

Your host, edie's content editor Sarah George, also brings you today's biggest headlines, including new funding commitments for grids and low-carbon transport - as well as a huge city-wide demonstration in Belem.

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Episode 8: A funeral for fossil fuels and $150bn for grids

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil.

It's Monday 17 November 2025 and we're officially into the second and final week of COP30!

We bring you the biggest headlines from the UN climate summit in brief, summarising the options that are on the table for the final agreements on reducing emissions and scaling climate adaptation finance. 

We also explain how - and why - businesses are getting involved in the COP.

Our special guest interview today is with COP29 High Level Champion Nigar Arpadarai. She made it her mission to get as many small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) to the COP in Baku last year, and is working with her counterparts in Brazil to keep building this legacy in 2025.

Your hosts are:
- edie content editor Sarah George
- edie editor Matt Mace
- edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal

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Episode 9: Climate agenda fights and decarbonising small businesses

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil.

Today’s news includes the UN’s latest update on global methane emissions, as well as a call to climate action from Pope Leo XIV.

We also explain the basics of the newest draft texts from the COP, which were published today in Belem by the organising team. They show there's still a long way to go to strike a final agreement on national emissions reduction plans, adaptation finance, and several other key issues. 

Given that the theme for today at the COP is forests and nature, our special guest interview is with Jack Hurd, head of the Earth System Agenda at the World Economic Forum. Jack is also executive director of the Tropical Forest Alliance.

Bringing his three decades of experience in sustainable development and forests, Jack shares his hopes for the COP – and his views on whether it could truly help to create a world where forests are seen as more valuable standing than chopped down.

Your hosts for this episode are:
- edie content editor Sarah George
- edie editor Matt Mace
- Spingwise content editor Matilda Cox

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Episode 10: Forest finance, methane emissions and the Pope’s climate message

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, hosted to keep you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil.

In our news in brief section today (Wednesday 19 November), we look at the first official draft documents to have emerged as the COP30 organising team rushes to get an agreement over the line in time for Friday.

We also look at how today's themes, centred around agriculture, are shaping up. Are there delegates being served sustainable meals and snacks? And who are the industrial ag leaders using COP30 as a lobbying opportunity? 

Our special guest interview today is with Manuela Santos, Country Director for Brazil at the sustainable trade initaitve IDH. She dials in from Sao Paolo to share what she saw in Belem at the COP, and to share her learnings on collaboration for more sustainable food systems,

Your hosts for this episode are:
- edie content editor Sarah George
- edie editor Matt Mace
- Spingwise content editor Matilda Cox

Say hello: newsdesk@fav-house.com

Episode 11: Farmers, food systems and the fossil fuel roadmap

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, hosted to keep you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. This episode is a special takeover hosted by edie's sister publication, Springwise.

In our news in brief section today (Thursday 20 November), we cover the unusual agreement which Turkey and Australia have reached regarding next year's COP.

This episode also examines whether AI will help or hinder the delivery of the Paris Agreement, and summarises the AI-focused initiatives which have come out of COP30. 

Our special guest interviewees today are:

- Matt Carr, co-founder and CEO of Luffy AI
 
- James Price, solutions engineer at digiLab
 

Your hosts for this episode are:
- Springwise commissioning editor Matthew Hempstead
- Spingwise content editor Matilda Cox

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Episode 12: Antonio Guterres’s call to action and AI’s climate impact

The final episode of edie’s daily COP30 Covered podcast is now streaming, with our award-winning journalists simplifying the key outcomes of the climate summit, including those on forests, climate finance and fossil fuels.

We look at what happened within - and beyond - the official negotiators' Plenary to summarise whether the past two weeks in Brazil have resulted in a good COP or bad COP. 

We also look to the future, summarising the key international climate and environment events on the horizon for 2026.

Your hosts for this episode are:
- edie editor Matt Mace
- edie content editor Sarah George

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Episode 13: The final agreement from Belém, explained

In the second part of edie's Net-Zero Week podcast special, sustainability leads at engineering firm Jacobs and online fashion retailer Zalando discuss their net-zero targets, while episode sponsors Centrica Business Solutions discuss key steps to target setting.

Net-Zero Week podcast (Part Two): The anatomy of a net-zero target

What are the climate stories that really matter? What breakthrough innovations and ambitious business initiatives could genuinely accelerate the transition to a net-zero, circular economy? And who’ll take home the coveted Big Fat Sustainability Uncovered Quiz of the Year trophy? Join the edie team for this long-running show which makes the big climate issues bite-sized.

Sustainability Uncovered uncovers some of most inspiring and insightful sustainability and climate action stories from across the globe. The show features live in-the-studio guests, leader interviews, need-to-know round-ups, listener quizzes and more – all wrapped up into monthly episodes.

Whether you’re a business leader, climate expert, environmental professional, youth activist, or just someone with a passion for all things sustainability and climate action – this podcast is for you!

For edie's 1:1 interviews with leaders and special audio features, search 'edie Extra'.

Net-Zero Week podcast (Part Two): The anatomy of a net-zero target

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